Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-01-12

gncle Bryson's. But when she heard that ne
was about to propose to Uncle Bryson's
daughter Amelia she hoped that Honor d'd
not care for him.
The first impulse OF Aunt Margaret and
Honor on receiving Uncle Bryson's check was
to send it back Second thought persuaded
them to keep it and use every penny OF it In
giving Christmas party themselves-not
sarty for the rich and prosperous, nor even
for their financial equals; but party for the
good and kind among their neighbors, the in
habitants of Paradise Row, humble souls, to
whom all pleasures were rare.
They took Mr. Redmond, the incumbent OF
the new church in their district, into their
confidence, and he was greatly interested in
the plan, and promised to help them all be
could He was the only friend the two ladies
ksd made since they went to Paradise row
to whom they could say anything about their
Fast lives. He often looked in upon them
after their days work was done, and it seemed
plain to Aunt Margaret that he took great in
terest in Honor Sometimes Aunt Margaret
said to herself that the match would not be
SO undesirable, although he was a widower,
with grown-up daughter, and a little too
old for Honor. ~
They had busy time preparing for the
feast. They felt in duty bound to ospend every
penny of the money. In addition to the sup
per, every guest was to have a|present, and
several sick ones were to have presents sent
them. They called in "Old Mamie" to help
the maid Of all work get the feast ready, and,
in her language, the house soon "smelt as
good as cook shop" Old Mamie was to be
one Of the guests Of the Christmas party. She
had been in charge Of the guardians Of the
poor; but had managed to have her SLOW
ancesn sent to her lowly lodgings, and never
got into the dreaded "house," where the poor
are taken in the last extremity.
Among the other important guests were
the alittle tailor and his wife, "Sallys grand
Ssmother," TJohnny and his mother" and the
apoor lodger." Sally's grandmother was in
} the receipt of parish relief The poor
lodger, as TIE neighbors called him, was
Z young man about whom, no one knew any
more than that he did not appear to have a
yfrispd in the world. and that he bad been in
desperate need, having just struggled through
a long illness in an attic OF a house where
lodged Johnny and his mother. The latter,
sailors widow, only just contatked to keep
body and soul together by WORRYING for the
city warehouses; and the little tailoh and his
wife got their living BY patching and, botch-
ing for people as poor ass tAemselvsf.
Although every one elss iqted atost the
little tailor and his wife clinsang % the pellet
that they would again SEQ their son, whd had
gone abroad to seek his fortune, and Esd NOT
been heard Of for years, Honor did po& rhe
belief helped them to bear theiE priyatdSns
better than they might otherWisei haye done,
she thought. sAsss Ass
And there was Grace Fairlie, the national
school mistress, gentlewomhn who had been
quite alone in the world since her lmcther'sI
death; and poor little Annie. TIE drunkan
cobbler's daughter, and the good hatured old
soldier, with the bullet in his leg who helped'
everybody. The ladies were dhhost afratd.
they would be obliged to send afsegafsts m m
vitation to the bullet, it was such an hnpor-
tant factor in the old man'slife
Then, there was Mrs. Parnen who was
"genteel.". They were .mcertaiY whether She
would come, for, althdus hsfMoy the
commendation Of bang pqdr and lonely,
A1ed herself upon havipg soncs moved
-. " Z sslya jtallsaA Of her